Disgraceful petrol prices are just robbery – stop it (From Worcester News)

Disgraceful petrol prices are just robbery – stop it

8:00am Friday 19th March 2010 in

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SIR – The sad fact is that the £1.20.9 mark for petrol was reached about a week ago across the road from me at Birmingham Road Texaco. It’s a total disgrace.

I’ve been gnashing my teeth with frustration and anger over the last year at the increases. I feel like the prophet everyone ignored because I said that if we didn’t ask the Government to cap prices at £1.15 the price would go straight past that. At the time everyone I mentioned it to told me to stop being paranoid about it.

Kudos to Mike Foster for speaking out on this appalling issue. Who is getting done over? The ordinary motorist, the worker who has to commute, the parent of three kids who has to get them around cheaply, and even the unemployed, given you need a car to go for most jobs.

Thank you to the Worcester News for telling us the truth about oil prices, as the petrol stations have been telling customers such as myself barefaced lies about rising oil prices. What a total mickey-take.

The way I see it is that the Government should agree to cap petrol prices at £1.15 and not allow it to be sold any more expensively, before being allowed to levy any tax at all.

We are all terrified of prices rising again, but what are we to do as citizens when we feel disenfranchised and ignored by the Government? Why aren’t they acting to get prices reduced by these robbers? Why are they even considering plunging their finance bleeding dagger even harder into our collective gut?

Richard Edward Lawrence
Kidderminster